Why is Sonnet 5 Max priced above models that outperform it? Posted by Applied_AI on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @07:56AM from the cursor.com dept. https://cursor.com/cursorbench ( 1 comment | 2 points | on HN )
The comparison is even more absurd between Sonnet 5 Max vs Composer 2.5 - they perform similarly, yet Composer is... 15x cheaper.
One might argue it's Cursor's benchmark, so it might be biased, but then again, even GPT-5.5 Very High performs better and it's almost 2x cheaper.